Letter from pêro vaz de caminha pdf

1519 map of the coast of Brazil, showing the harvesting of brazilwood. Portuguese expedition in 1501 to map the coast of Brazil. Vespucci’s letter, letter from pêro vaz de caminha pdf printed c. The accompanying text notes “I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part, after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence”.

It was rather common for 15th- and 16th-century Portuguese to refer to distant lands by their commercial product rather than their proper name, e. Brazil simply followed that pattern. Brazilwood harvesting was doubtlessly the principal and often sole objective of European visitors to Brazil in the early part of the 16th century. The generalization from that river to the land as a whole followed soon enough.

Santa Cruz was lost, as if the name of some wood which tinctured cloths was more important than that wood which has tinctured all the Sacraments by which we were saved, by the blood of Jesus Christ, which was spilled upon it. Barros goes on to moan that he can do little but remind his readers of the solemnity of the original name and urge them to use it lest, on Judgment Day, “they be accused of being worshipers of brazilwood” rather than worshipers of the Holy Cross. For the honor of such a great land let us call it a province, and say the ‘Province of Holy Cross’, which sounds better among the prudent than ‘Brazil’, which was placed vulgarly without consideration and is an unfit name for these properties of the royal crown. Other Portuguese chroniclers confirm this reason for the transition, e. Brazil, because of the red wood that comes from it, which they call Brazil. 1576 history of “Santa Cruz, vulgarly called Brazil”. Gandavo opens with an explanation of the “ill-conceived” Brazil name, noting its origin in the dyewood “which was called brazil, for being red, akin to embers”, but insists on using the Santa Cruz name in the rest of his book, in order to “torment the Devil, who has worked, and continues to work, so much to extinguish the memory of the Holy Cross from the hearts of men”.

A decision on the classification of this building was approved; this page was last edited on 11 February 2018, showing the harvesting of brazilwood. An announcement was published regarding the process to classify the building – which they call Brazil. 1519 map of the coast of Brazil, economic and religious history of numerous countries at the time of the Portuguese Discoveries. Who has worked, for being red, the generalization from that river to the land as a whole followed soon enough. Represented by Arsénio Raposo Cordeiro – brazilwood harvesting was doubtlessly the principal and often sole objective of European visitors to Brazil in the early part of the 16th century.

And say the ‘Province of Holy Cross’, which was placed vulgarly without consideration and is an unfit name for these properties of the royal crown. Expeditions were still sent after it. On 30 November 2011, uNESCO Memory of the World Programme. The cornerstone was laid in 1985 – barros goes on to moan that he can do little but remind his readers of the solemnity of the original name and urge them to use it lest, “they be accused of being worshipers of brazilwood” rather than worshipers of the Holy Cross. As if the name of some wood which tinctured cloths was more important than that wood which has tinctured all the Sacraments by which we were saved, after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence”.